[PD-announce] [Fwd: P.i.D.i.P. 0.12.16 [ media file readers ]]

[Yves Degoyon]

hola,

as the use of quicktime in pdp/pidip is a little bit problematic
( no a/v synchro, crashes from time to time ),
i've made that theora file reader for PDP
and, also consolidate the pdp_live~ object,
so now what we have to read videos in P.i.D.i.P. is this :

pdp_yqt :  fast, seekable, no a/v synchro, randomly crashes
pdp_live~ : slow, seekable ( with a recent ffmpeg ), a/v synchro, quite 
stable
pdp_theorin~ : reasonnably fast, not really seekable, good a/v synchro, 
quite stable

so, you can choose your reader depending on your needs.

and here are the release notes, from the CHANGES.LOG :

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0.12.16 ( codename Fadaiat )
 added pdp_theorin~ : threaded theora file reader
 ( warning : requires theora, ogg & vorbis static libs )

 modified pdp_live~ : added an autoplay option ( default = true )
 modified pdp_live~ : made the files seekable
                      ( added an input for the frame number, works with 
ffmpeg >= 0.4.9 )
 modified pdp_live~ : better disconnection mechanism
 modified pdp_live~ : reworked on a/v synchronisation

 fixed pdp_i/pdp_o : fixed huffman encoding and freezings
 fixed pdp_i/pdp_o : fix communication between macs and pcs ( 
endianness problem )

 added --with-ffmpeg=PATH and --with-mpeg4ip=PATH configure options
 ( --enable-ffmpeg and --enable-mpeg4ip are dead )

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enjoy!!
sevy